GarageBand tutorials for the podcaster in you

A set of video tutorials can help you get your podcast ship-shape using …

Since its introduction in 2004, Apple has slowly evolved GarageBand from a recording companion for budding musicians to a do-it-yourself podcasting tool. The current version sports a number of features designed to make it easy to create and share your voice with millions of potential listeners (although I feel pretty confident in saying that you probably don't have that many).

Learning how to use all those nifty features is another matter entirely, and for that, you might consider turning to macProVideo.com's GarageBand tutorials. There are two available, one for learning the fundamentals of audio editing and mixing with GarageBand and another for putting it to podcast use. (There's also a bundle package of the two.)

The tutorials consist of separate video tutorials on individual topics in each field; you can view a few samples on the site. Just watching the sample on "ducking" alone I felt like I'd accidentally learned more about GarageBand in two minutes than I remember learning about it to date. Maybe I'll start recording Infinite Loop stories for the inevitable ArsCast.... hmm. Perhaps I'd better get Jacqui to do them instead.